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The data story in general for Core is something they have repeatedly said is going to be worked on incrementally. Entity Framework Core is explicitly being sold as a "use only if you have to run on Linux/Mac" otherwise stick with EF6.

They're also making it very clear that features can and will be added/ported to .Net Core in the future based on what developers need and want. The thing they are absolutely keen to avoid is any breaking changes from 1.0 onwards - the plan is that you'll see 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 not a semver 2.0 for a very long time. To that end the legacy of DataTables is "how can we do this better" not trying to support decades of old libraries from the odd. The 4.6 Framework exists to do that and isn't going away if that is what you need.